Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals by Jesse Armstrong

Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals by Jesse Armstrong

It’s 1994 and the former Yugoslavia is being torn apart. In England, a gang of good-hearted young people are about to set off in a Ford Transit van armed with several sacks of rice and a half-written play. A play which will light a beacon of peace across the Balkans and, very probably, stop the war. Andrew would love to stop the war. He has one of the most comprehensively developed personal foreign policies of anyone working on a building site in the Greater Manchester area. He feels everyone should have a foreign policy, really. What sort of person doesn’t have a foreign policy? But what he’d like to do – maybe even more than stopping the war – is sleep with Penny, who he is pretty sure might be the love of his life. But does Penny like him? Or does she love Simon, his rival, an irritatingly authentic Geordie poet? Or Shannon, the fierce, inspiring American leader of the troupe? Who exactly loves who? And what’s the safest way to make it out of a minefield should you accidentally wander into one? And what do you talk to a mercenary about? And is a bad thing really a bad thing if it maybe leads to a good thing? It could all take a while to work out, as the gang cross Europe and head into the war zone.

"Within the first few sentences, Love, Sex & Other Foreign Policy Goals had me hooked..combines the best of sitcom-style drama with just the right amount of gravity... Armstrong’s debut manages to be clever and fun while also retaining grittiness. I hope this is the first of many." -- Rachael Pells * Independent *
"Armstrong at his comic best ... Armstrong’s hilarious portrayal of flawed humanity wins it for me." -- Lucy Frith, 4 stars * Stylist *
"Original, unabashed and irresistibly funny." -- Zoe Williams * Guardian *
"Well-written and full of good gags." -- Sebastian Shakespeare * Tatler *
"A truly comic novel." * Esquire *

Jesse Armstrong is the co-creator and writer of the BAFTA Award-winning Peep Show, as well as Fresh Meat, Bad Sugar, Babylon and, with Chris Morris, Four Lions. He was also co-writer of The Thick of It and the Oscar-nominated In the Loop, and wrote the Entire History of You for Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror. Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals is his first novel.

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ISBN 13	9780224097345
ISBN 10	0224097342
Title	Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals
Author	Jesse Armstrong
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2015-04-02
Number of pages	384
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.